Leading from the Heart: A Journey of Self-Love

Leading from the Heart: A Journey of Self-Love Is it possible to achieve a healthy well-being while also being successful in your professional life? ‘Hustle culture’ has made us think that success and self-care can’t be mutually exclusive; we can only choose one and sacrifice the other. As a leader, your mental, emotional and physical […]

Passion v Purpose – My True North

Passion v Purpose – My True North Getting to optimal performance can be challenging if you don’t know if you are hanging on to- passion or purpose. Passion and purpose have been often misinterpreted as one. While passion is about feeling good, enjoying what you do, purpose is finding the deeper meaning in a work, […]

Charging your Influence Quotient

Charging your Influence Quotient An idea is resilient. Once planted in someone’s head, it can’t be gotten rid of easily. If you have watched Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece, Inception, you might have heard the line – ‘An idea is like a virus. It can grow to define or destroy you’. Although a fictional movie, the theory […]

Well-being, a multidimensional concept

Well-being, a multidimensional concept If you search for the definition of well-being in the Oxford dictionary, you will come across the terms “comfortable”, “healthy”, “happy”. Well-being is defined as the state of being healthy and happy. Would this definition suffice when you ask yourself – “Am I doing well”? Is knowing what things make you […]

High Performing Teams 101: Getting the Basics Right

High Performing Teams 101: Getting the Basics Right A team is a group of people with defined skills committed to achieving set goals. In any context, the compatibility of its team members is the differentiating factor between an average or low performing team and a high performing team. It is the high performing team that […]

Empathy, Leadership, and the Communication that binds them

Empathy, Leadership, and the communication that binds them Intelligence is a trait valued dearly in our professional lives. The ability to quickly grasp and implement new skills comes in handy, whatever your profession might be. A sharp mind can help you gain ground. You can always rely on your wit and quick thinking to get […]

Culture, Results and Everything in Between

Culture, Results and Everything in Between A few years back, Deloitte’s conducted research that uncovered a strong relationship between companies with strong cultures and workers with higher job satisfaction. 94% of executives and 88% of the employees claimed to be firm believers of the fact that a distinct corporate culture is vital for success. Another […]

A Quick Guide to Critical Thinking

A Quick Guide to Critical Thinking The human mind is a wonderful thing. Millions of neurons come together to form cohesive thoughts, which are then reflected in one’s actions. These thoughts are meant to be fluid: circumstance and facts should be able to sway us in the right directions. Alas, that is seldom the case. […]

Want High Performing Teams? Get Them Giving Their Point of View

Want High Performing Teams? Get Them Giving Their Point of View We all know that high performing teams achieve great results that are just not possible with a middle or low performing teams. We have seen some major public disasters such as the Challenger Space Shuttle as a result of lack of communication and ‘groupthink’ […]

How to Avoid Death by Q&A

How to Avoid Death by Q&A You prepared well for your presentation. You spent hours structuring content and getting your slides designed. You practiced on your own, and with a critic. On the day, your delivery was spot on. Your audience smiled, nodded, made affirmative noises, and even clapped at the end of the presentation! […]